City rankings based on police presence (crime rate, live, law)
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Given that safety is an issue for many posters and that it is a hot topic right now, I thought that it would be interesting to post this list: Which Cities Have the Biggest Police Presence?
Interesting article and worth pointing out to those that say DC is "dangerous" clearly haven't visited. I lived in Northwest DC for many years and always felt relatively safe with a fairly visible presence of uniformed police parked or on patrol day and night. After 9/11 the city deputized all federal protective services including the National Park Police (all around the District), US Secret Service Uniformed Police (heavily present around embassies in NW DC), The U.S. Capitol Police (who patrol much of Capitol Hill), Federal Protective Services (Homeland Security's Uniformed Patrol present through much of DC) and a dozen other smaller more specialized units such as the Supreme Court Police and Smithsonian Police. Prior to 9/11 federal agency law enforcement had to call for assistance from DC Police to make an arrest and wasn't always something that officers wanted to undertake given the procedural nightmare. Now they can apprehend and make their own arrests without DC Police involvement.
In scanning the list, it kind of looks like there's a correlation between the per-capita size of the police force and the per-capita crime rate (which I didn't have available in front of me, so I'm sort of guessing on that one). Seems reasonable; the more dangerous a place is, the more police protection it needs. But then what happens when crime goes down? Do they reduce the size of the police force? And will this cause the crime rate to go back up? So many questions . . .
In scanning the list, it kind of looks like there's a correlation between the per-capita size of the police force and the per-capita crime rate (which I didn't have available in front of me, so I'm sort of guessing on that one). Seems reasonable; the more dangerous a place is, the more police protection it needs. But then what happens when crime goes down? Do they reduce the size of the police force? And will this cause the crime rate to go back up? So many questions . . .
I would not say that. Flint, MI is the murder capital of the US and it is near the bottom. Saginaw, MI is not far behind Flint for crime, but they did not even make the list.
New Orleans is 17th in the country in officers per person and the mayor still pays for the state police to patrol the French Quarter permanently. This state should really be doing that for free imo. NOLA brings in $6 billion in economic impact from tourism alone. The state gets most of that, maybe they should be protecting their wallet better.
Police don't make me feel safe, and that list reads similar to the "most dangerous cities in the US" lists I always see on here.
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